The Irish standard., 1887-10-29
IN PRAISE Of THE PAPAeY.
s French Protestant Journal on It's
Salutary Powers---The Hostility OF
Freemasons to the Holy See.
POPE LEO XIl!.'s SOLIC'TUDE
For the Welfare Of the Toiling Glasses -
What He Gan and Will Do in
Their Behalf.

Their Behalf
The two great moral forces, says DR..
Bernard O'Reilly, which now stand face
to face in Europe endeayoring, each in
its ;Yay, to solve the difficulty between
labor and capital, are the Papacy on
the one side, and on the other, the anti
social, anti Christian organizations,
which obey the orders or are carried
away by the influence of continental
.Free1uasonry, as distinguished from
the Masonic body in the British empire
and the United States. There has just
come to light in tho columns of an adj
vanceA Italian revolutionary journal,
the Fec d'Ltalia Of Genoa, a documenJ
which clearly reveals the purpose OF
strategy OF that hidden power which
now controls and governs France and
Italy. which ultimately aims at the de-
struction Of all Christian institutions
not only in what was ancient Christen-
dom, but in the United States as we'll,
if American citizens will only allow
the secret organization a,ud the spirit
which rules it to grow up aud spread
among us. This document is none
Other than the secret constructions OF
q Grand Inspector Of E'reemasonry
{European.) AS have already more
than once told the readers OF ihe Sun,
the one great purpose OF Leo Kill, has
been TO make both governments and
peoples accept the church as the sole
power, divineiy instituted and destined
to save society and the human race
FROM anarchy, revolution and the
Thousand colTapting agencies which
are evermore at work TO bring us back
to the saYage state. This lies at the
bottom Of the powerful plea which Leo
XIII, has just addressed to Italy in
favor of the restoration OF the tempo
raj power OF the Papacy, and Of the real
Independence which can alone enable
the Popes to exercise their divine mis-.
sion tor the spread of Christianity, and
FOR the we'll neing and happiness Of all
Christian peoples. ms an answer to
the appeal addressed by the Grand
Orient Of Italy 70 revolutionary, anti
Christian and anarchical passions, take
the following declaration OF LIE Temps,
the leading organ Of Protestant public
opinion in France. It is taken from an
editorial on the recent and now wcrl0
wide famous pamphlet of Eugene Ren~
du, entitled THE letter Of the Pope
and Official Italy" Aud do not forget
that M. Rendu, /, former Garibaldian,
contributed to the establishment Of
the present kingdom OF Italy. call
other unforeseen cause" the editor
says, "has contributed to develop i'm
menseIy this power and this action of
the Pope not only in What concerns the
conscience Of mankind. but in what re-
lates to the political destinies Of almost
every nation. One may here contem-
plate curious antimony (irregularity)
in the field OF history. The cause we
allude to is quite modern; it is the de-
velopment ut the popular liEerties, and
OF these habits Of parliamentary goy-
eminent which give the people All ever
increasing preponderance in the admin
istration of affairs. AL! that the peo-
pie have acquired in this direction has
been gained forcibly from the monarchi-
cal forces Of past ages. But peoples,
on their side, as they become more and
more sovereign, yield none the less to
moral, religious aud philosophical in
duences. Now, what is in the civilized
world at the present day, if not the
highest and best. at least the mightiest
moral force, the best disciplined and
the most universal, if not the force of
Catholicism, of which the Pope is the
supreme head? Thus it is chat in our
age, thanks precisely TO the spread Of
the national sovereignty among the
popular masses, and to their habits of
f-government, Leo Kill, can ex-
ercise, and does, in fact, exercise, po
Iitical action hundred times more
l5
powerful and more extensive than any
Of his predecessors at the most am
bilious period of the middle ages. All
nations feel this, and fear it, at the
they are gong to use the privi
lege Of universal suffrage This is
said grudgingly and perforce. But
what mosts interests us Americans,
and the masses among us now so pas
sionately moved by the labor question,
is to know. hsDw thoroughly how cor-a|
daily how enegetically Leo Kill, uses
at this moment all the influence of his,
office and his great char acter, all 1the3|
activity Of his bishops his priests
in nsbIeneli ittina b yer the Rorld !, thes))
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